Heartless scoundrel grabbing miss locked up (6)
I believe the answer is:
closed
'locked up' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'heartless scoundrel grabbing miss' is the wordplay.
'heartless' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'scoundrel' becomes 'cad' (cad is a kind of scoundrel).
'grabbing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'miss' becomes 'lose' (I've seen this in other clues).
'cad' with its centre taken out is 'cd'.
'cd' enclosing 'lose' is 'CLOSED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for closed that I've seen before include "restricted" , "clinched the sale" , "Resolved" , "successfully completed" , "Concluded or fastened" .)